The Wild West

There are many Western Conference candidates you might be able to snap up for a bargain based upon down 2016-17 campaigns. Injury, a less-than-stellar supporting cast, or a role change can contribute to reduced production …

Hockey Rambling

Time to get out the blowtorch.
With just over a week until the beginning of the 2017-18 campaign, the fantasy hockey draft season is starting to wind down as well. Hopefully between the Ramblings, the articles, …

20 Fantasy Hockey Thoughts

Every Sunday this offseason, we'll share 20 Fantasy Thoughts from our writers at DobberHockey. These thoughts are curated from the past week's "Daily Ramblings".
Contributors: Ian Gooding, Michael Clifford, and Neil Parker
1. For those playing public …

Keeping Karlsson

With Brian away, Elan brought in famed writer for The Athletic, Dom Luszczyszyn, to explain the Game Score stat he invented (and how he uses it to project team performance), his ongoing season preview series and …

Geek of the Week

Gabriel Landeskog's fantasy value has nowhere to go but up.
Even though the Colorado Avalanche failed to make the playoffs in 2016, there was still plenty of optimism for fantasy purposes for the following year. Four …

Hockey Rambling

Live Draft Analysis, Neal, Injury Updates, plus more...
On Tuesday I participated in my first live draft of the season. The draft was for a team in the Experts League, which includes the likes of TSN, …

The Journey

The Journey digs into possible prospect storylines heading into training camps and the start of the 2017-18 season.
The most recent editions of The Journey can be found here.
1. What does a potential Riley Sheahan for …

The Dobotomy

For the last 14 years (12 with The Hockey News) Dobber has reviewed each team from a fantasy-hockey standpoint and graded them.
This year, due to Dobber’s battle with cancer, he recruited Cam Robinson (of Frozen …

Hockey Rambling

Information changes constantly through NHL training camps and exhibition games. What is true for line combinations one day may not be true to the next, be it for injury, looking for chemistry, or a litany …

Hockey Rankings

The Top 100 goaltenders to own in your keeper league...
Rankings are back early thanks to my early release from hospital! Enjoy...this one is long overdue
Goaltenders are considered fairly equal within their tiers, however for the …

The Dobotomy

Dobber's offseason fantasy hockey grades – Vegas Golden Knights
For the last 14 years (12 with The Hockey News) Dobber has reviewed each team from a fantasy-hockey standpoint and graded them.
This year, due to Dobber’s battle …

Fantasy Hockey Cage Match

On tap this week is another battle inspired by the DobberHockey Fantasy Guide – Nikita Zaitsev versus Jaccob Slavin, whom the Guide predicts will post the exact same number of points this season (sorry, no …

Hockey Rambling

Determining how to evaluate the Five W's of preseason games is important to succeeding in the late rounds of deep-league drafts. Below are a few notable performances from Monday's games that stood out and why.
Kyle …

The Dobotomy

Dobber's offseason fantasy hockey grades – Vancouver Canucks
For the last 14 years (12 with The Hockey News) Dobber has reviewed each team from a fantasy-hockey standpoint and graded them.
This year, due to Dobber’s battle with …

Eastern Edge

Fantasy Draft Breakdown
I thought I would depart from my usual Eastern Conference focus in order to cover a tough draft that took place last Saturday night. The league is called the Rocky Horror Roto Show …

Hockey Rambling

MacKinnon, Koivu, Picking a Prospect, plus more…
Hey, it’s Ian here. If you’re wondering where Neil is, we have switched days this week, so he will cover tomorrow’s Ramblings.
Thanks to everyone who submitted questions on Saturday …

The Wild West

Breakout candidates can be defined in a few different ways, but for the purposes of this article we’ll look at young, Central Division non-rookies who have established themselves at least somewhat in the NHL and …

Keeping Karlsson

Whose NHL point totals are the hardest to pin down for the 2017-18 season? Elan and Brian leafed through a whack of different point total projections to pinpoint this year's most contentious players, and are bringing them into …